English
Etymology
proto- + Greek
Alternative spellings
Protogreek
Noun
Proto-Greek
- The earliest form of the Greek language, the common ancestor of the Greek dialects, including Mycenean and the classical Greek dialects, spoken by the ancestors of the Greeks even before the settled in Greece around 2000 BC.
Synonyms
protohellenic
See also
w:Proto-Greek language|Wikipedia has an article on Proto-Greek
Category:Greek language
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